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Providing a comprehensive examination of the traits and areas of authority Ancient Babylonians attributed to their healing goddess, this book draws on a wide range of Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources, including god lists, literary compositions, lexical lists, prognostic texts, incantations, and prescriptions. Analysing the use of selected metaphors associated with the goddess, a new perspective is offered on the explanation for disease as well as the motivation for particular treatments. Special chapters deal with the cuneiform handbook on prognosis and diagnosis of diseases, medical incantations appealing to the healing goddess, and the medicinal plants attributed to her. For the first time a body of evidence for the use of simple drugs is brought together, elaborating on specific plant profiles. The result is a volume that challenges many long-held assumptions concerning the specialized cuneiform medical literature and takes a fresh look on the nature of Ancient Babylonian healing.

Médecine assyro-babylonienne --- Healing. --- Gula --- Déesses --- Medicine, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Magic, Assyro-Babylonian. --- Civilisation assyro-babylonienne --- Médecine assyro-babylonienne. --- Civilisation assyro-babylonienne. --- Assyro-Babylonian medicine --- Medicine, Ancient --- Curing (Medicine) --- Therapeutics --- Assyro-Babylonian magic --- Magic, Chaldean --- Gula (Assyro-Babylonian deity) --- Healing gods. --- Gods, Healing --- Gods --- Healing --- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric --- Mental healing --- Mythology --- Spiritual healing --- Religious aspects --- Gula/Ninkarrak --- Ninkarrak --- Ninisinna --- Médecine assyro-babylonienne. --- Déesses

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In recent years the study of miraculous images has experienced a substantial re-evaluation of their importance as powerful agents of divine intercession and assistance in Renaissance society. Nonetheless, aspects related to the genesis, devotional use and preferences of these images remain only broadly outlined and geographically constrained. In parallel with the great veneration for miracle-performing Marian and Christological imagery, other saintly figures became the objects of widespread devotion on account of their protective and curative powers, and the images of these saints became cult objects themselves.0This volume fills a void in current art historical research and examines how miraculous images and the imagery of healing saints were crucial to the creation of individual, corporate and collective identities in Florence, Siena, Rome, Naples and other lesser researched Italian centres. The essays in this collection address aspects related to the development of hagiographies, iconographies, cult of relics, and devotion of healing saints. Moreover, it considers imagery related to miraculous events also in terms of material culture in the private and public domains. The images will therefore be studied both as aesthetic objects and as cult objects, in order to interrogate the often tense relationship between mechanical vision and cultural visuality. While dealing with specific curative, protective, and miraculous episodes related to the exposition of sacred images, this book unravels questions of patronage, authorship, agency, and tradition.

miracles --- History of civilization --- visual culture --- saints --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- Spiritual healing --- Christian patron saints --- Christian patron saints in art --- Idols and images --- Healing gods --- Miracles in art --- Worship --- Cultuurgeschiedenis --- heiligen --- mirakelen --- visuele cultuur --- Italië --- 091:235 --- 091.31 "13/14" --- 091.31 "15/17" --- 091.31 "15/17" Verluchte handschriften--Moderne Tijd --- Verluchte handschriften--Moderne Tijd --- 091.31 "13/14" Verluchte handschriften--?"13/14" --- Verluchte handschriften--?"13/14" --- Healing --- Miracles --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Healing - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Saints --- Italie --- Iconographie --- Images miraculeuses --- Christelijke kunst --- genezing